The full Senate voted unanimously this morning to convict Federal District Judge Thomas Porteous on all Articles of Impeachment! He was immediately removed from the bench and will be denied his $174, 000 per year pension.
You may recall that his primary defense centered around the notion that most of the things he and his cronies were accused of doing occurred while he was sitting on the state bench, so the feds shouldn't have any problems with them. The very brazen idea!!
As a resident of southeast Louisiana, I have only this to say: Merry early Christmas to me!
Since they actually voted to boot out one of their own, maybe they're not all crooked in D.C..
What am I saying?!? They almost sucked me in! (See: Charles Rangel.)
